record keeping

(also record-keeping)

noun [U]

Definition

› the activity of organizing and storing all the documents, files, invoices, etc. relating to a company's or organization's activities: Complaints about poor record keeping and alleged abuse have been building for more than a decade. detailed/careful record keeping electronic/computerized record keeping financial/medical/official record keeping record-keeping requirements/systems/practices

(Definition of record keeping noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)